Look at a true progressive and his struggle against the Sino-Corporatist Cabal's reactionary attitude towards the good people of Hong Kong!
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Papal Bull
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posted 18 January 2005 07:00 PM
A question, what has the ruling been? I'd like to know the fate of this colourful character (my friend's parents hold him in quite high regard).
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He lost the right to say his own Oath (A British judge ruled against him. Fuck that dirty Thatcherite pig.), but he was saved from bankruptcy because the same judge (whom I will upgrade from Thatcherite pig to Blairite twit) deemed it to be in the public interest for the LegCo to pay for his legal expenses.
Incidentally, he did say the proper oath, but he added words before and after the Oath condemning the right-wing Sino-Corporate Cabal (the term is my own) and made the whole affair as theatrical as possible. His oath was ultimately ruled admissible.
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Cueball
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posted 20 January 2005 11:08 AM
Where is all this neo-Kuatskyiest drift coming from Newbie?
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DrConway
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posted 20 January 2005 12:54 PM
NDP Newbie has a point, though. China's government has not been and is definitely not today a "socialist" government except in its nominal ideological commitment to the Communist concept of guaranteeing some kind of standard of living for all who live within the country.
Even that is fading away as the government uses its internal passport system to push unemployment out of the developed seaboard and into the undeveloped interior of the country, so that the true unemployment rate is probably 10 to 15 percent.
Fidel would have more to say about the Chinese government horning in where it sees fit in the business sector, but I will just end by noting that the problem of corruption hasn't gone away since Deng's 1978 pronunciamento about getting rich. (and why not, when you might be in charge of the bureau that allocates, say, construction permits, and people bribe you to get moved up in line?)
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Cueball
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posted 20 January 2005 01:22 PM
Kautsky was right. I'm just razzing him.
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